Water-motor



UNITED STATES` PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. KALES, OF FRANKLINVILLE, NEW YORK.

WATER-MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 547,667, dated October8, 1895. Application filed December 23, 1893. Serial No.494,540. (Nomodel.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. KALES, a citizen of theUnited States,residing at Franklinvlle, in the county of Oattaraugus and- State of NewYork, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Motors;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it apperiains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates more particularly to that class of water wheels ormotors known as impactwheels; and its object is to provide an improvedconstruction whereby the full pressure of the water .is maintained inthe water-line at the point of discharge against the wheel; also, to soconstruct and arrange the buckets upon the periphery of the wheel thatthey shall be perpendicular to the line of impact and shall dischargethe water downward and outward, thereby relieving the wheel of the waterusually carried by the buckets and periphery of the wheel; also, toprovide for greater clearance of the water escaping from the Wheel.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of thisdevice, the cover removed. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of thisdevice. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the nozzle.

In the said drawings the reference-numeral l designates the casing ofthe apparatus sloping gradually outward on all sides from the top to thebottom. Journaled in this casing is the driving-shaft 2, to which issecured the water-wheel 3. Said wheel is preferably cast in a singlepiece of metal and formed with a central or mid-peripheral rib 4.'

The numeral 5 designates the buckets, also preferably formed integralwith the wheel, alternately arranged on the periphery of the wheel onopposite sides of said rib. These buckets are quadrant-shaped, curved inradial direction only, and concave on the side receiving the impact ofwater, and have curved peripheral edges and unite with themid-peripheral rib at right angles.

The feed-pipe 6, suitably secured to the casing l, is provided with aplurality of nozzles or vents 7 in its outer end, as more clearly seenin Fig. 3, and with a valve 8 for closing one of said nozzles, asindicated by its position in said ligure, when it is desired to reducethe amount of water to be fed to the buckets of the wheel, according tothe force or power to be expended. One or more of these nozzles may beprovided, as described.

The numeral 9 designates the outlet.

The numeral l0 is the feed-pipe to the nozzle.

The operation will be readily understood. The water fed to the wheelwill strike the buckets, thereby rotating the wheel and escaping at theoutlet 9. By the peculiar shape of the buckets the water will continueto act thereupon at its full pressure until cut off by a succeedingbucket, and by alternately arranging the buckets on opposite sides ofthe rib the wheel will run steadier. By'constructing the casing smallerat the top than at the bottom, as shown, the water which is thrownagainst it from the wheel flows away from the latter instead of fallingback upon the same, as is the case when the walls of the casing areperpendicular. Only one vent or nozzle is stopped with the valve orplunger. The other is left open, so that when the water is turned on thewheel it is ready to start. In many places there are twoprinting-presses to run, a large cylinder-press and a small jobpress.The job-press runs ten times as much as the cylinder-press. The cylinderrequires all the available power developed when both vents are open. Thejob-press runs very nicely withaone vent open. Now, to get the mostpower out of a given quantity of water, it is necessary to avoidfriction, and hence small nozzles, as the vein of water in a very smallnozzle is so thin that it requires much of the available power toovercome the friction in the nozzles, so I stop one nozzle and leave theother wide open.

There are in practice nozzles of different diameters, so that vI canelect a combination thereof that will be most effective.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is In a water-motor,the wheel having an edge wise-disposed, mid-peripheral rib and series ofquadrant-shaped buckets alternating each IOO other on opposite sides ofsaid rib, curved in radial direction only and concave on the sidereceiving the impact of water, and having curved peripheral edges anduniting with said 5 rib at right-angles,a11 arranged beyond theperiphery, proper, of the Wheel, in combination with the easing closelyoompassing and conforming to the relatively upper buckets of the wheeland Haring downward therefrom toward the bottom thereof, substantiallyas Io set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN W. KALES. Witnesses:

E. D. SCOTT, JAMES MCSTAY.

